Free Exercise - Production Credits
In Memory of
LEO EATON
Directed by
LEO EATON and JOHN PAULSON
Produced by
BARBARA BALLOW
LEO EATON
JOHN PAULSON
LYN RAPPAPORT REID
Narrated by
RICHARD BROOKHISER
Executive Producer
THOMAS D. LEHRMAN
Written by
RICHARD BROOKHISER
LEO EATON
THOMAS D. LEHRMAN
JOHN PAULSON
Editor
BARBARA BALLOW
Director of Photography
GARY KEITH GRIFFIN
Produced in Cooperation with
BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Music Composed and Conducted by
JOHN KELTONIC
Original Music c 2023, John Keltonic, JDK Music, ASCAP. Used by Permission
Location Sound
MATT BLACKERBY
KENNY HADA
TED HOGEMAN
MATT MARTIN
BUCKAROO MAY
EDWARD O’CONNOR
STONE LYONS
JOHN VILLAROSA
Additional Camera
PETR CIKHART
BRIAN DENTZ
DAVE GOULDING
CLAYTON HERETH
TJ JOSEFY
BRUCE LIFFITON
SAM SHINN
Archival Producers
SUSAN HORMUTH
ALISON J. RICHARDS
Archival Media Wrangler
GORDON COVENEY
Associate Producer
CAREY MURPHY
Production Assistance
CHRISTOPHER CHEN
JEAN-PASCAL GAUTIER
CHRISTOPHER LOFFT
RENU NAHATA
SEAN PAULSON
LEENDERT ROSENBRAND
CHASE SCOTT
ALEX TRAN
JESSICA WEIGANDT
ETHAN WILSON
Graphic Art & Animation
STACY JANNIS
Aerial Cinematography
DAVE GOULDING
JESSE PATTERSON
VIKAS PATEL
SAM SHINN
Assistant to Mr. Thomas Lehrman
TALIA FURCHAK
Production Accountants
HULL COMPANY ACCOUNTANTS
VTA ADVISORS
Music Clearance Service
CLEAR CUT, INC.
BRANDON HURST, Clearance Supervisor
Musician Soloists
SUSANNA KLEIN, Violin
KEVIN ELAM, Vocals, Guitar, Whistle
Music Recording
TONAL PARK
CHARLIE PILZER, Recording Engineer
Post Production Video Services
HENNINGER MEDIA SERVICES
JEF HUEY, Senior Editor
LAUREN MESCHTER, Senior Colorist
KIM HOWELL CATES, Sound Mixer
DONNA GURECKAS, Sound Designer
ALEX KETCH, Sound Designer
LAURA VON SCHRILTZ, Sales Director
SARAH ELLISON, Project Manager
Voice Actor
RICHARD ‘FRITZ’ KLEIN
Narration Recording
SONIC UNION, NY
DRC STUDIO, IL
SONGS
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Shall We Gather at the River
Traditional
Performed by Arnett Chapel Congregation
Lift Him Up & He Is Worthy
Traditional
Performed by Mother Bethel AME Church Choir
Steal Away to Jesus
Traditional
Performed by Eartha Kitt
Courtesy of Sony Entertainment
Deep River
Traditional
Performed by Marion Anderson
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Traditional
Performed by Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
Communion Motet
Composed by Francisco Guerrero 1528-1599
Performed by Church of St. Vincent Ferrer Chorus
Offertory Motet
Sebastiande Vivanco 1551-1622
Performed by Church of St. Vincent Ferrer Chorus
Kensington Bible Riots
Traditional
Performed by Kevin Elam
Come Thou Font of Every Blessing
Traditional
Performed by Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Come, Listen to a Prophet’s Voice
Traditional
Performed by Orem Institute of Religion Combined Choir
Carry On
Traditional
Performed by Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Parade Musical Compositions
Composed by Jason Robert Brown
Performed by Parade Original Broadway Cast
Courtesy of Concord Music Group & Sony Entertainment
(CUTS USED: Prologue: The Old Red Hills of Home, The Trial, Finale: The Old Red Hills of Home)
The Star Spangled Banner
Traditional
Performed by Kate Smith
The House I Live In
Composed by Earl Robinson & Lewis Allan
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Courtesy of Wise Music Group & Warner Chappell Music
Freedom Highway
Composed by Roebuck Staples
Performed by Rhiannon Giddens
ARCHIVAL STILLS
American Antiquarian Society
Andrew Aitchison/prisonimage.org
Anti-Defamation League
AP Photo/John Duricka
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
AP Photo/Sang H. Park
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
Arkansas State Archives
Asher B. Durand, Peter Stuyvesant and the Trumpeter, 1835, Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 30 1/4 inch. 1858.28, New York Historical Society
Bank of Wisdom
Becket Fund
Bettmann via Getty Images
Boston Public Library
Bridgeman Images
British Library, London, UK© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Calvin University
Capital Jewish Museum
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
C.C.A Christensen paintings, Courtesy of the Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Chicago History Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA © Cincinnati Art Museum/Subscription Fund Purchase/Bridgeman Images
Clark Kelley Price
Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography.
National Gallery of Art
Courtesy of the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at The Breman Museum
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Magnes Collection
Courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection
Courtesy of the The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati,
Ohio at americanjewisharchives.org
Dafford Murals, Paducah Wall to Wall
Destruction of the “Nauvoo Expositor” (c) Anthony Sweat
Digital Library @ Villanova University
Digital Library of Georgia
Eastham Historical Society
Faber-Castell
Flickr – Steve Shook
FPG/Archive Photos via Getty Images
Georgia State Archives
Georgia State University Library
Granger
HathiTrust
Haverford College
Hennepin County Library
Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images
House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College
Hulton Archive via Getty Images
Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical via Getty Images
Illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman National Park Service/ © Louis S. Glanzman
Internet Archive
Isaac M. Wise Temple
iStock.com/Vladimirs
Jerry Pickney/National Park Service
Jewish Historical Society of Oregon
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center/Floyd Jillson
Knights of Columbus
LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto
Leo Baeck Institute
Leo Frank Case Archive
Leo Frank Case Research Library
Lexington Public Library/Knights of Columbus. Kentucky State Council
Library Company of Philadelphia
Library of Congress
Library of Congress/Photographs by Muriel and Malcolm Bell
Library of Congress/© Printed ephemera material by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
Library of Congress/Virginia Baptist Historical Society
Life Picture Collection/Pond5
Missouri State Archives
Mother Bethel AME Church, Richard Allen Museum, Philadelphia PA
National Archives and Records Administration
National Park Service/Jerry Pickney
New York State Archives
© North Wind Pictures/Bridgeman Images
© NPL – DeA Picture Library/Bridgeman Images
Oklevueha Native American Church
Old State House Museum Collection
Oregon Historical Society
OPB
Naval History and Heritage Command
Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
PICRYL
Private Collection© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images
Rijks Museum
Sam Feinsilver/Moment via Getty Images
Scott J. Ferrell/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images
Senator Mitt Romney
Seventh-day Adventist World Church
Signature Books Publishing
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
State Library and Archives of Florida, World Digital Library
The Associated Press Images
The British Museum
The Chesterfield Historical Society of VA
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The New York Public Library
The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
The Oregon Historical Society
The Washington Post via Getty Images
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill, Inc.
U.S. Government Printing Office
Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
Wellcome Collection
Wikimedia Commons
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
STOCK FOOTAGE
AnnaStills/Pond5
Atrevete/Pond5
avgeeks/Pond5
BBC Natural History/BBC Creative via Getty Images
Becket Fund
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
C-Span
Central Synagogue
ChromaVid/Pond5
Colonial Williamsburg:
Produced in cooperation with
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
(Colonial Williamsburg is a registered trademark
of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)
Courtesy of William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Courtesy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
CriticalPast
DigitalThrillsTX/Pond5
DVArchive.com
EasyStreet/Pond5
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films/CR/Archive Films: Creative via Getty Images
Film Audio Services – Footage/Archive Films: Editorial via Getty Images
guy113/Creatas Video via Getty Images
Historic Films Archive, LLC
Jesse Patterson
JHDT Productions/Pond5
Len Wood/Santa Maria Times
Library of Congress
MapleandLime/Pond5
Maya Vision International
Maryland Public Television
The Montpelier Foundation
National Archives and Records Administration
NHK/NHK Video Bank Creative via Getty Images
Pond5
retrofootage/Pond5
retroklips/Pond5
Richmond’s First Baptist Church
RickRay/Pond5
Roberto Machado Noa/Archive Films: Editorial via Getty Images
robmbrown/Creatas Video via Getty Images
rodclement/Pond5
Shore Studios LLC
Skipster10/Pond5
Smithsonian via Getty Images
Sony Pictures Entertainment via Getty Images
State Archives of Florida
StoryBlocks
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
trekkerphotos/Pond5
VIAFilms/Pond5
Warner Bros. Studios/Warner Bros. Entertainment via Getty Images
YouTube
YouTube/Adventures and Stuff
Zane Isaac/Pond5
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Becket Fund
Montserrat Alvarado, Ryan Colby, Jeff Gasser
Knights of Columbus
David Naglieri, Steven Curtis
Tim Moriarty, Castletown Media
Ted Maynard, Media Arts Center
Church of Jesus Christof Latter-Day Saints
Dallin Oaks, Rick Turley, Peter Midgley, Barry Taggart, Hailey Walker
Robert Shufflebeam, Meghan Whatcott
Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History
James Basker
Rev. Dominic Legge
Thomistic Institute
Lewis and Louise Lehrman
Mara Grace Lehrman
Alex Eaton
Rick Garnett
Nathan Hecht
Douglas Laycock
Pamela Nadell
Jacqueline Rivers
Mark Rienzi
Carter Snead
Kevin Walsh
Adrian Weimer
Evan Young
Arch Street Quaker Meeting House
Jennifer Gray
Bon Air Baptist Church
Rev Tom Stocks, Randy Lynn, Sharon McCauley, Lisa Wade, Tom Palch
John Bowne House
Scott Hanson
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Riley Lewis
Carthage Jail, Nauvoo, IL
Gary Boatwright, Craig Dalton, Susan Sims
Diyanet Center of America
Patra Abuelenin, Fazli Kahraman, Ahmet Salih Bayraktar
Drikung Dharma Surya Center
Vu Nguyen
Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
Liz Williams
Greater Philadelphia Film Office
Hindu Temple of Virginia
Honey Springs Battlefield
Adam Lynn
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
T. Patrick Hudson
James Madison Program
for American Ideals and Institutions
James Madison’s Montpelier
Elizabeth Chew, Christy Moriarty
Minersville Area School District
Megan Catizone, Carl McBreen
Mother Bethel AME Church
Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, Gloria Gaskins
Mount St. Michael Academy
Brother Steve Schlitte
Nauvoo Illinois Temple
Gary Boatright, Craig Dalton, Rick Jensonn
National Constitution Center
Merissa Blum
New York State Archives
Thomas Ruller
Tony de Nicola
De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Princeton University
Michael Hotchkiss
Old St. Patrick’s Basilica
Frank Alfieri
Office of Senator Mitt Romney
Paige Waltz, Meaghan Shepherd, Brianna Manzelli
John Rankin House
Betty Campbell
Samarpan Hindu Temple
Suhag A. Shukla
Sikh Gurdwara, DC
Dr. Daljit Sawhney
Stone Street Tavern
Miguel Moose, Charlene Gomez
St. Michael and St Philip Neri Parishes,
Philadelphia PA
St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church
Rev. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, James Wetzel
“The Lustre of Our Country”
By John T. Noonan, JR.
Temple Israel, Paducah, KY
This is the Place Heritage Park
Tate Harris
Westover Episcopal Church
Rev. Becky McDaniel
Special Thanks to the United States
Department of Defense
Joseph Miller, Christine Thomson
Special Thanks to the United States Coast Guard
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